Tag Archives: Photography
Brooklyn Sons & Daughters
March 7, 2012 — by
Before The Selby, An Afternoon With and Teenage Bedroom—there was The Nooney Brooklyn Photographs–documenting the homes and interiors of your average Brooklyn family. Dinanda H. Nooney spent a year crisscrossing the borough to capture the diverse families living in Brooklyn from January 1978-April 1979. Here’s a selection of teenagers growing up BK. Above: Joseph & Mary Merz, architects. Daughter Julie & cat. 48 Willow Place, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. January, 1978. Maybe your address is featured in the archives?
Mid-wink, Mid-gum chew, Mid-hair twirl
January 26, 2012 — by
Take a peek at these disturbingly awkward portraits of teenage girls by Stockholm based artist Julia Peirone. Capturing in between moments of the in between years. Mid-wink, Mid-gum chew, Mid-hair twirl of middle schoolers.
Keita’s Couples
January 2, 2012 — by
Sharp style and sweet love fill these portraits of young couples of Bamako, Mali in the early-mid 1950s. Self taught photographer Seydou Keita (1921-2001) opened a portrait studio in Bamako, renowned throughout West Africa.
Street Snaps
December 23, 2011 — by
Prolific photographer Martha Cooper captured the gritty culture of New York City streets during the 1970s and ’80s. She’s best known for cataloging the endless tags and murals of influential 80s graffiti artists, respecting their work as art. Check out her books of photographs: Hip Hop Files: Photographs 1979-1984, Subway Art and Tag Town.
Hair DOs
December 8, 2011 — by
Do DO these DOs: Teeny braids, twists n’ turns, sculpted coils. Nigerian born photographer J.D Okhai Ojeikere captured the hairstyles of young Nigerian women in the late 1960s. ‘Hairstyle Series’ consists of over a thousand pictures of fashionable coifs and is the largest of his archive to date.
‘All these hairstyles are ephemeral. I want my photographs to be noteworthy traces of them. I always wanted to record moments of beauty, moments of knowledge’. – J.D. Okhai Ojeikere
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